Hello.
I have been happily using Vista for a year and half no with no problems
whatsoever. Yesterday for no reason that I can deduct my loading time
slowed to over two minutes for text pages and for sites like HULU the
videos tale over 5 minutes to download before they play and then they
are buffered every 30 seconds so it is basically useless now.
I have been researching this and applying fixes for a day now and
nothing works. Here is what I have already done: (plus more that I
probably forgot!)
1. disable autotuning
2. defragged
3.check disk run
4. scan disk run
5.all virus and spyware scans
6. Hijackthis scan
7.system restore disable

All of this made not the slightest difference.
However running the Reliability and Performance Monitor gave me a FAIL
on the disk status check. The reason it gives is that D drive has only 9
percent free space.

Is this what is causing the slow speed and what do I do do repair it?


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i.sedition

Percents are a funny thing:

9% of a 20MB HDD is 1.8 MB remaining. THAT would be a problem.
9% of a 500GB HDD is 45 GB remaining. That is not a problem.

If you believe 9% remaining is a reasonable number and may impede
operations, then it's time to:
1. Get another HDD, or
2. Move and Delete some files.

Other possibilities:
1. Malware
Get a tool to remove it.
2. Actual error creating a gargantuan log file.
Do a simple right-click of folders and check properties to find
anything suspiciously large.
Fix the error.
3. Hard drive is going bad.
Chkdsk

"i.sedition" wrote in message
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Hello.
I have been happily using Vista for a year and half no with no problems
whatsoever. Yesterday for no reason that I can deduct my loading time
slowed to over two minutes for text pages and for sites like HULU the
videos tale over 5 minutes to download before they play and then they
are buffered every 30 seconds so it is basically useless now.
I have been researching this and applying fixes for a day now and
nothing works. Here is what I have already done: (plus more that I
probably forgot!)
1. disable autotuning
2. defragged
3.check disk run
4. scan disk run
5.all virus and spyware scans
6. Hijackthis scan
7.system restore disable

All of this made not the slightest difference.
However running the Reliability and Performance Monitor gave me a FAIL
on the disk status check. The reason it gives is that D drive has only 9
percent free space.

Is this what is causing the slow speed and what do I do do repair it?


--
i.sedition

Percents are a funny thing:

9% of a 20MB HDD is 1.8 MB remaining. THAT would be a problem.
9% of a 500GB HDD is 45 GB remaining. That is not a problem.

If you believe 9% remaining is a reasonable number and may impede
operations, then it's time to:
1. Get another HDD, or
2. Move and Delete some files.

Other possibilities:
1. Malware
Get a tool to remove it.
2. Actual error creating a gargantuan log file.
Do a simple right-click of folders and check properties to find
anything suspiciously large.
Fix the error.
3. Hard drive is going bad.
Chkdsk






UPDATE: I just went into D drive and got a warning that as it is a
recovery partition do not delete or tamper with any files.


--
i.sedition

You should not be putting anything on a recovery partition!
Most manufacturers hide the partition. There is just enough room for the
recovery files.


"i.sedition" wrote in message
...


Percents are a funny thing:

9% of a 20MB HDD is 1.8 MB remaining. THAT would be a problem.
9% of a 500GB HDD is 45 GB remaining. That is not a problem.

If you believe 9% remaining is a reasonable number and may impede
operations, then it's time to:
1. Get another HDD, or
2. Move and Delete some files.

Other possibilities:
1. Malware
Get a tool to remove it.
2. Actual error creating a gargantuan log file.
Do a simple right-click of folders and check properties to find
anything suspiciously large.
Fix the error.
3. Hard drive is going bad.
Chkdsk






UPDATE: I just went into D drive and got a warning that as it is a
recovery partition do not delete or tamper with any files.


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i.sedition

Mark..no you misunderstood me, or I was not clear enough.
When you mentioned in your first answer about checking files to see if
there was errors etc. I said that the problem was with the D Drive and
it cannot be messed with.
I posted the stats on the percentages in both C and D drives (see last
post) and the clusters numbers where I was flagged.
I ran CCleaner and a Malware tool (Malwarebytes) and nothing. I still
have slow. slow page loading which makes computer unusable.

Thank you for the quick reply. The reason I think D may be the culprit
is because of that drive earning a FAIL in the relialibility scan. And
the clusters are red flagged in that same result tally.
As this is my recovery D Drive isn't deleting files a risky business?
D Drive: 729MB free disk space out of 8.07 GB
C Drive: 73 GB used out of 215GB
I did the check and scan disk on both drives. They came out perfect.
The cluster results from same report say D. has 186,549 free out of
2,303,000 and it is red flagged. This means ?
I am going to check folders for errors now and do the malware check
though I did three different virus/spyware etc. scans already.
Thanks and please let me know if this additional info. gave you any new
ideas!
Catt



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i.sedition

Ah...
You are posting to a forum?, or somewhere else? and the stats below are not
in any of the posts in the newsgroup where I read your message.

Make sure you do not have Pagefile or Restore turned on for the D: drive.
Either would attempt to wirte files to the drive and find little space to
perform the desired actions. You should also have the Recycle Bin set to not
be active on the D: drive.

Make sure the program that is downloading videos/files is trying to save to
C: drive, not D: drive. For example, if you are simply downloading with
Internet Explorer, then the Temporary Internet Files folder is on C:, not
D:. (It sounds like a folder has been moved to D: that should not be there
that stores temporary data.)

"i.sedition" wrote in message
...

Mark..no you misunderstood me, or I was not clear enough.
When you mentioned in your first answer about checking files to see if
there was errors etc. I said that the problem was with the D Drive and
it cannot be messed with.
I posted the stats on the percentages in both C and D drives (see last
post) and the clusters numbers where I was flagged.
I ran CCleaner and a Malware tool (Malwarebytes) and nothing. I still
have slow. slow page loading which makes computer unusable.

Thank you for the quick reply. The reason I think D may be the culprit
is because of that drive earning a FAIL in the relialibility scan. And
the clusters are red flagged in that same result tally.
As this is my recovery D Drive isn't deleting files a risky business?
D Drive: 729MB free disk space out of 8.07 GB
C Drive: 73 GB used out of 215GB
I did the check and scan disk on both drives. They came out perfect.
The cluster results from same report say D. has 186,549 free out of
2,303,000 and it is red flagged. This means ?
I am going to check folders for errors now and do the malware check
though I did three different virus/spyware etc. scans already.
Thanks and please let me know if this additional info. gave you any new
ideas!
Catt



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i.sedition

PS.
What program is flagging these clusters as Red, or Failing a reliability
scan?

"Mark H" wrote in message
...
Ah...
You are posting to a forum?, or somewhere else? and the stats below are
not
in any of the posts in the newsgroup where I read your message.

Make sure you do not have Pagefile or Restore turned on for the D: drive.
Either would attempt to wirte files to the drive and find little space to
perform the desired actions. You should also have the Recycle Bin set to
not
be active on the D: drive.

Make sure the program that is downloading videos/files is trying to save
to
C: drive, not D: drive. For example, if you are simply downloading with
Internet Explorer, then the Temporary Internet Files folder is on C:, not
D:. (It sounds like a folder has been moved to D: that should not be there
that stores temporary data.)

"i.sedition" wrote in message
...

Mark..no you misunderstood me, or I was not clear enough.
When you mentioned in your first answer about checking files to see if
there was errors etc. I said that the problem was with the D Drive and
it cannot be messed with.
I posted the stats on the percentages in both C and D drives (see last
post) and the clusters numbers where I was flagged.
I ran CCleaner and a Malware tool (Malwarebytes) and nothing. I still
have slow. slow page loading which makes computer unusable.

Thank you for the quick reply. The reason I think D may be the culprit
is because of that drive earning a FAIL in the relialibility scan. And
the clusters are red flagged in that same result tally.
As this is my recovery D Drive isn't deleting files a risky business?
D Drive: 729MB free disk space out of 8.07 GB
C Drive: 73 GB used out of 215GB
I did the check and scan disk on both drives. They came out perfect.
The cluster results from same report say D. has 186,549 free out of
2,303,000 and it is red flagged. This means ?
I am going to check folders for errors now and do the malware check
though I did three different virus/spyware etc. scans already.
Thanks and please let me know if this additional info. gave you any
new
ideas!
Catt



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i.sedition